Colloquia

Fall 2008

From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information, please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

Events at Haverford College

PLACET (Philadelphia Area Classics Events Calendar)

COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Spring 2008
January
25	James Ker University of Pennsylvania "The Afterlife of Paulina, Seneca's Wife"
February
1	Ronnie Ancona Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY "Catullus Poem 1: The Gift and the Shifting Addressee"
22	(CANCELLED BECAUSE OF WEATHER) Gary D. Farney Rutgers University "Italic Identity in the Roman Republic and Italian Social War Propaganda"
29	Richard Hodges University Museum, University of Pennsylvania "Butrint: Crossroads of the Mediterranean"
March
*28	Thorsten Fögen University of California, Los Angeles "Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder's Attitude Towards Predecessors in the Naturalis historia" *This lecture will take place at 3:30 pm in Thomas 224. The tea will be in the London Room at 3:00 pm.
April
4*	William J. Slater McMaster University "Hadrian's Festival Project: Crowns and Cash " *This lecture will take place in Thomas 224.
11	Danielle Allen Institute for Advanced Study "Why Plato Wrote"
18	C. Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the graduate students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology* Mariam Feldman University of California, Berkeley Title: "Luxury Arts and Interconnections in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean and Near East"
25	Agnes Michels Lecture presented by the graduate students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies Gregory Nagy Harvard University Title: "A Classical Text of Homer in the Making "
COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE Fall 2007
September
14	Student Reports from Fieldwork and Programs Abroad Student presentations
21	Peter Magee Bryn Mawr College “Reassessing Urartian imperialism and cultural change in Iron Age Iran: New results from old excavations”
25*	SPECIAL EVENT: Opening of the exhibition *Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generations of Women Archaeologists(curated by Megan Risse) Lecture by: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway* Professor Emerita of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College “Oral History: A Personal Commemoration” *Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:30 pm Carpenter Library B21 Reception and Exhibition Opening 6:00 pm Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Class of 1912 Rare Book Room For further information call: 610-526-6576
28	Kathryn Morgan UCLA “The Fairest Victory of Them All? Hieron, His Rivals, and Pindar’s First Pythia”
October
12 & 13	2007 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM October 12-13, 2007: "To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys Ancient to Modern" Keynote Lecture: Friday, October 12, 4:30 pm* Lisa Nakamura Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Visual Cultures of Race and the Digital: Biometric Cinema in 'The Island'" Jas Elsner Visiting Professor, Art History, Department of Classical Languages and Literature; Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
26	Ann-Marie Knoblauch Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University “Nymphs, Sex and Marriage in Ancient Greece”
November
2	Ralph Rosen University of Pennsylvania & Mario Telò Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa “Eupolis, Borat and the tyranny of Aristophanes”— a roundtable discussion
14*	MARATHON '07: Plato's Symposium @ Haverford College *Wednesday, November 14th Time: 4 P.M. Location: Sunken Lounge, Dining Center, Haverford College
16	Ian Moyer University of Michigan and Institute for Advanced Study “Graeco-Egyptian literature and the Ptolemaic ‘Middle Ground’”
ARCHIVES: Colloquia 2006-2007 Colloquia 2005-2006 Colloquia 2004-2005 Colloquia 2003-2004 Colloquia 2002-2003 Colloquia Spring 2002

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phone 610-526-5198 * fax 610-526-7479 * e-mail: ocardona@brynmawr.edu
by Oliva Cardona (ocardona@brynmawr.edu) © 2008 Bryn Mawr College